[Vision2020] St. John Wenders

[Matt Decker]

Ralph,

Gee Ralph, what you and Sue have said, almost makes me believe you both are 
glad he has passed.
Let's not forget that we all live life to our fullest and to our best 
potential. We all make mistakes but those little mistakes that you don't 
agree with shouldn't be a downer on his life right?

Matt


>From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
>To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] St. John Wenders
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:47:15 -0800
>
>Let us not forget what a saintly man John Wenders was. Although he
>was only on half-time appointment as a professor at the University of
>Idaho, he made a deal with then President Richard Gibb for full-time
>retirement benefits. All this from a government school at the
>taxpayers' expense.
>
>Ralph Nielsen
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:42:05 -0700
> > To: letters at lmtribune.com
> > From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
> > Subject: Religion of Wenders
> >
> > The article in Turnabout (Sunday, Aug. 1) "Majority spends money of
> > all on immoral pool" by John Wenders, should have appeared on
> > Saturday's Religion page. Like most other profit-seeking prophets
> > in the market-place of wishful thinking, the Rev. Dr. Wenders
> > pretends that he is saving us from sin--the sin of taxation for the
> > common good of our fellow citizens. Taxing the citizens of Moscow
> > for a public swimming pool is immoral, he says. Besides, swimming
> > is not all that good for young people anyway, at least not for his
> > sonny boy, whose daddy happens to be wealthy enough to send him to
> > a private academic summer program.
> >
> > Religion thrives on persecution, real or imaginary. Thus our latter-
> > day St. John has also been ridiculed for preaching that if we will
> > only believe in what he says, we will all be saved. Saved from the
> > hell of taxation for the good of others besides ourselves.
> >
> > Another hallmark of organized religion is the hypocrisy of many of
> > its preachers. According to the  prophet Wenders, tax subsidies for
> > public swimming pools are immoral. But churches pay not a penny of
> > taxes while they enjoy public services paid for by all taxpayers.
> > Are they not immoral, too? And aren't subsidies and tax write-offs
> > for large corporations also sinful?
> >
> > Let me quote from the gospel according to St. Wenders: "That is
> > redistribution, pure and simple, something that is antithetical to
> > every ethical standard." So when will Wenders, our new anointed
> > one, drive the evil money redistributors from his father's house?
> > Don't hold your breath, folks. I have a feeling that his
> > predecessor will show up first.
> >
> >
>
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